Plus a bit of Azure, and it all costs so much it’s selling $1.5bn more shares Videoconferencing darling Zoom has issued a prospectus it hopes will raise $1.5bn, and which also reveals that it may be less dependent on the cloud than its suppliers hav…
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Lees meerHarmeen Mehta will handle telco's internal rewiring and tech product strategy BT has hired former HSBC exec Harmeen Mehta to head up a newly created Digital unit, overseeing the internal shift to digital systems along with the incubation of tech pla…
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Lees meerNow wouldn't be the time to exploit millions stuck at home, yeah? Maybe restrain the profiteering a little? America’s largest internet providers have been asked to provide details of any price hikes or broadband restrictions they have placed on capt…
Lees meerAnd no, Parler wasn't hacked either. Its public posts were simply scraped Parler, which advertised itself as a place where you can "speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed' for your views," sued Amazon Web Servi…
Lees meerSimplicity is the key Sponsored Hybrid cloud has existed as a concept for almost as long as cloud services have been around, with the result that everyone now believes they understand it. But the expectations of what hybrid cloud is and what it sho…
Lees meerNew, expensive option for nation's notspots Ofcom has given the thumbs-up to SpaceX's Starlink broadband user terminals, opening the door to a UK launch of Elon Musk's satellite-based broadband service.…
Lees meerCareful with that rack, Eugene Who, Me? A reminder to take care when fiddling with the top shelf in today's edition of Who, Me? Especially when "good" has taken a backseat to "cheap".…
Lees meerBut Cisco is trying to push on anyway with the help of US courts Opticla networking biz Acacia Communications announced it had pulled out of the $2.6bn merger agreement with Cisco on Friday, but the Silicon Valley giant isn’t letting go and is seeki…
Lees meerApp delivery networking firm wants to solve customers' 'biggest pain points' Seattle-based application delivery networking biz F5 is planning to snaffle edge-as-a-service platform upstart Volterra for $500m.…
Lees meerRegulatory hurdles, funding, pandemic, and Huawei have made this a big ask – but industry remains determined The 2025 deadline to deliver UK-wide gigabit broadband is "unreachable", according to a damning report from Parliament's spending watchdog.…
Lees meerRunning an unsupported version? Make a move or face possible outage. You have 11 days to comply Microsoft is about to make a potentially breaking change affecting the Azure Service Fabric runtime - due to an unspecified security issue - that could i…
Lees meerA gesture of Churchillian solidarity with all they hold dear Faced with a stark choice between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the evil technocracy of the EU's Brussels dictatorship, plucky little campaign group Leave.EU…
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Lees meerInitial offer reported to be in region of $10.1bn, no certainty acquisition deal will be done French integrator-cum-outsourcing biz Atos has launched a bid, reported to be in the region of $10.1bn, to buy IT infrastructure services biz DXC Technolog…
Lees meerLocal authorities' shared Unit4 system is late, overbudget, and only works on Microsoft's cloud Two local authorities in northwest England have awarded reseller Insight Direct a six-year £35m contract for Microsoft licences and cloud services.…
Lees meerNot quite what we meant by 'record-breaking' Third borksman of the apocalypse 123-Reg has ridden into 2021 with... you guessed it, DNS issues.…
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